Carl Wilhelm Friedrich Launhardt (7 April 1832 – 14 May 1918) was a German

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and

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. Launhardt was born in

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, the capital of the Kingdom of Hannover. He studied and taught at Hannover's

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. Following Hannover's annexation by the

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, Launhardt served in the Prussian House of Lords. In 1885 he succeeded in calculating the optimal rate of duties in the sense of the effects of the terms of trade.

Works

*, 1872 * "Die Bestimmung des Zweckmässigsten Standortes einer Gewerblichen Anlage", ''Zeitschrift des Vereines Deutscher Ingenieure'', 1882. Translated as "Determining the most convenient location for a commercial plant", the magazine of the Association of German Engineers.
''Mathematische Begründung der Volkswirtschaftslehre''
1885. Translated as "Mathematical foundation of economics". * ''Theory of Network Planning'', 1888. *

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